teach1st
08-15-2005, 05:13 AM
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_4002685,00.html
Local public schools were scrambling late last week to fill a handful of teaching positions, a last-minute flurry of activity prompted in part by the area's high cost of housing.
As of Thursday, Collier County School District officials had filled nearly 350 teaching positions, but about 30 positions were still vacant. Included in that were 12 classroom teaching positions that officials hoped to have filled by today. Other teaching vacancies included reading resource and research teacher positions.
Principals were interviewing throughout the week and held new-hire meetings over the weekend to complete the fingerprinting and other requirements to get teachers in classrooms as fast as possible.
Until then, the district will use certified substitute teachers to fill the classrooms.
"Teachers can be very choosy at this time of year," mused Debbie Terry, recruitment director for Collier County schools.
Lee County school officials were still about 50 classroom teachers short as of Friday following the district's first week of school. Since June, Lee school officials hired more than 600 teachers as they opened eight schools across the district.
Officials in both Lee and Collier school districts say the cost of housing in the area is increasingly becoming a problem when it comes to recruiting new teachers and retaining those who have been recently hired.
Read more (http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_4002685,00.html)
Local public schools were scrambling late last week to fill a handful of teaching positions, a last-minute flurry of activity prompted in part by the area's high cost of housing.
As of Thursday, Collier County School District officials had filled nearly 350 teaching positions, but about 30 positions were still vacant. Included in that were 12 classroom teaching positions that officials hoped to have filled by today. Other teaching vacancies included reading resource and research teacher positions.
Principals were interviewing throughout the week and held new-hire meetings over the weekend to complete the fingerprinting and other requirements to get teachers in classrooms as fast as possible.
Until then, the district will use certified substitute teachers to fill the classrooms.
"Teachers can be very choosy at this time of year," mused Debbie Terry, recruitment director for Collier County schools.
Lee County school officials were still about 50 classroom teachers short as of Friday following the district's first week of school. Since June, Lee school officials hired more than 600 teachers as they opened eight schools across the district.
Officials in both Lee and Collier school districts say the cost of housing in the area is increasingly becoming a problem when it comes to recruiting new teachers and retaining those who have been recently hired.
Read more (http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_4002685,00.html)